Chapter 5 – Savages
Ewan and the girls set off on their quest to retrieve the Mage's help. The day ahead of them seemed to be long and tiring.
"We should reach the Mage's by sun down" said Ewan
"Sundown!" shouted Siera "It will take that long! Cant we teleport or something!"
"I haven't the power to teleport" began Ewan "Neither do you, the only one who has is my father and he is far too weak from bringing you here"
"We can do it" began Kiara "It can't be that hard"
"I must warn you" began Ewan "There are many dangers lurking in the forest"
"Like what?" asked Jaelie
"I've herd of evil savage monkeys that look upon you from the tree tops wanting to eat you. Once they have targeted you as there prey, the swing down from the trees and snatch you right off of your feet and take you back to their tree to be eaten" explained Ewan
"I do not want to be eaten by monkeys!" shrieked Neraka
"Neither do I!" added Kiara "Is there a way we can avoid it? Those things sound awful scary"
"Yes" replied Ewan "But it will take an extra two days to reach The Mage, don't worry, you have supernatural powers focus on them and they will come to you"
The group had been walking for what seemed like hours. Jaelie and Siera dawdled at the back while Ewan marched on in front. Neraka and Kiara stayed a few meters behind Ewan constantly looking around for Savage Monkeys. Jaelie and Siera soon became board with the silence so they decided to play a prank on Neraka and Kiara using their fears of Savage Monkeys.
Jaelie and Siera began running towards Neraka and Siera screaming…
"SAVAGE MONKEYS! TAKE COVER!"
Neraka and Kiara, without even thinking, immediately began sprinting towards the nearest bushes to hide from the danger they thought was there. They dived threw the bushes unaware of the large mud puddle on the other side, they landed face first in the thick brown mud. With their faces covered in mud, they cautiously poked their head out of the bushes only to see Ewan standing over Jaelie and Siera who were on the ground in hysterics, there faces bright red with laughter, there eyes watering like crazy. Ewan crouched down and shook his head but was smiling at the same time.
Neraka and Kiara, very angry with their two sisters for their immature prank, decided to throw mud at them, but they accidentally missed and hit Ewan square in the face instead.
Jaelie and Siera then began to laugh even harder; you could tell they were having trouble breathing. While wiping the thick mud off his face, Ewan stood up and also began to laugh a little. He smiled at Jaelie who was still on the ground and helped her up, Siera was still to busy laughing to notice though.
Ewan turned and began to walk forward.
"We haven't the time for this, we must keep moving" he said in an honorable voice
He turned back and faced the girls. "Before more Savage Monkeys come"
A smug smile drew across his face as he turned to keep walking.
Jaelie and Siera gave a quick cry of laughter while Kiara and Neraka stormed off after Ewan. Siera and Jaelie quickly followed.
They walked for a few more hours. Siera and Jaelie were bragging to each other about how brilliant their prank was when they heard a rustling in the trees behind them. They turned to look behind them but saw nothing so they kept on walking. About five minuets later Siera and Jaelie started talking once more when again they heard the rustling of the trees. They turned and looked and saw a monkey like creature swing from one tree into the other.
"Savage monkey!" cried Siera
Neraka turned and looked at Siera
"Nice try guys, it's not going to work this time"
"We are not kidding!" said Jaelie in a serious tone
"Yeah whatever, I can't see anything" said Neraka as she turned back to walk with Kiara.
Jaelie and Siera looked at each other but kept walking. A few seconds later an object that look to be like an orange came flying out of nowhere and hit Neraka in the back of the head. Neraka turned and looked at Jaelie and Siera with a furious look upon her muddy face.
"Don't look at me!" snapped Siera "I didn't do it!"
Neraka then turned her eyes and focused on Jaelie
"It wasn't me!" claimed Jaelie
"Guys, this savage monkey thing is getting old" explained Neraka
"We are not lying!" yelled Jaelie
Ewan turned back to see what all the fuss was about, but what really caught his attention was the monkey at the top of the tree that was looking directly at the four girls all standing in the middle of the path arguing. He then noticed the vine that was gripped in the monkey's skinny wrinkly hand.
"GET DOWN!" yelled Ewan, with a look of shear worry on his face
Kiara turned around to look at Ewan; she shook her head and said…
"Oh great, so you three are all in on the joke"
"KIARA GET DOWN!" screamed Neraka
But before Kiara even had the chance to move the monkey swung down from the tall tree and snatched her right off the ground.
"KIARA!" squealed Stem flying after her
"That is not good!" said Jaelie; she looked behind her only to see hundreds of Savage Monkeys, some swinging from tree to tree while others just stood on the ground. "Definitely not good!"
Ewan ran over to the girls and drew out his sword ready to fight off the monkeys. Neraka's attention was on the tree the monkey had taken Kiara into. Neraka then saw the monkey and that was holding Kiara and tried to use her mind to start a fire like she had done at school that day. Instead of setting the monkey on fire like she planned, she accidentally set the tree on fire. The tree burst into flames and the smell of burning leaves filled the air. The fire scared the savage monkeys away, all except one, the one that held Kiara was still sitting in the tree, the black smoke made it difficult to see it though.
"My bad" said Neraka slightly blushing
"Quick Siera!" shouted Misty "Put the fire out!"
Ewan and Jaelie looked at Siera whose face was full of confusion.
"What… How!" yelled Siera
"Concentrate!" yelled Ewan
Siera looked at the burning tree and concentrated with all her might, water then shot out from her hands extinguishing the fire.
"Yeah!" shouted Siera "Snaps for me"
Suddenly there was a drop from the tree that had previously been burning. It was Kiara, she quickly ran over to her fellow sisters.
"What happened?" asked Jaelie "Are you alright"
"I'm fine, the monkey got hit in the face with all this water that came from no where and it just dropped me!" said Kiara "I'm glad that's over"
"Its not over" said Ewan.
There was a rustling in the trees all around them. Ewan grabbed Jaelie's wrist and pulled her behind him.
"Get behind me" demanded Ewan "All of you"
The girls scurried behind Ewan. Neraka noticed that Ewan's hand still wrapped tightly around Jaelie's wrist but she had no time to suspect anything.
A rock then came from no where and yet again hit Neraka in the back of the head.
"Ouch!" screamed Neraka "Why is it always me!" Neraka then picked up the rock and threw it into a bush. They then herd a shriek of pain come from behind the bush and then hundreds of sharp rocks began flying threw the air at them
"Nice one Neraka I think you hit one of them!" snapped Kiara
"I didn't mean to!" replied Neraka
Rocks were hitting them every five seconds until finally Jaelie had enough.
Without even contemplating what she was doing, Jaelie managed to put up a huge bubble like force field that surrounded the five of them and their magical creatures. The rocks re-bounded off the force field as it began to rise about the canopy. Ewan stood up and looked down at the savages below them, they were not happy. Ewan then saw purple smoke coming from a chimney; he knew that it must be The Mage's house. Ewan walked over to Jaelie who was shocked over what she had accomplished.
"Try and steer the bubble that way" said Ewan as he pointed in the direction of the smoke.
"Ok" said Jaelie smiling. Ewan put his hand on her shoulder and then walked over to the other girls who were sitting in the centre of the bubble.
"Good job girls" he said looking fondly at Jaelie who was now steering the bubble, "We should reach The Mages in a simple hour so try and get some rest"